Ninjago fighters will be waiting for you at Legoland Florida Resort when their ride opens on January 12, 2017.
- Legoland is celebrating their fifth birthday
- The Winter Haven park has expanded every year
- In 2017 they're adding a new ride, Ninjago, and a resort
Legoland Florida is 5-years-old, the perfect age to enjoy its own Winter Haven theme park.
Every year since their 2011 opening, the park has expanded – with new rides, lands, a water park and a cleverly themed hotel.
And 2017 looks to follow same pattern.
Ninjago, the ride, is coming January 12, 2017. And the park's latest hotel concept, the Beach Retreat, will be open by June.
Photo: Virginia Johnson, staff
As for Ninjago, it's a spot where children and adults can hone their ninja moves.
What moves, you ask?
The Cobra. The Chops of Fury. The Lightning Strike.
When you enter the ride's courtyard, your training begins with activities like rock walls and Lego building. It is all to prepare children (and adults) for the battle outside the dojo and on the Ninjago ride.
How, you ask? It's called maestro hand gesture technology, detecting hand and arm gestures to create virtual victories over evil.
For example, if your child were to be riding in the four-person car, and he or she does the ‘Chops of Fury’ in the direction of the bad guys being projected in 3-D along the wall in the Ninjago ride, they will crumble.
You'll see touches of the Ninjago world throughout the our world. What you won't see, though, are firearms.
"Lego don't like guns, they don't do guns," said Adrian Jones, Legoland Florida's General Manager. "Therefore we said right, with that in mind, wouldn't it be cool if…."
And the concept was born!